to editorial, h this >> the president: i urge all of to you join me. >> is the press on board or are there still questions which need answers? earth day hits 40, putting a spotlight on mother nature and other entertainment. in the past four decades have the media been objective or doom and gloom. america remembers oklahoma that dark moment in our nation's past gave some in the media a chance to compare tim mcveigh's evil deed to tea party protesters. should there be outrage? concerns over iran's nuclear threat grows. memo from defense secretary

makes headlines. are the media missing the mark? with suspended anchors and internal strive is msnbc in trouble? on the panel in week writer and contributor judy miller. cal thomas. jim pinkerton and kirsten powers. i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. >> the president: as i said on this stage two years ago, i believe in the power of the free market. i=

increased government oversight will be good for their industry. headlines like these friday morning in the "washington post", obama -- in the "new york times", new jersey's star ledge engineer. this one in the "new york post", part of the parent company of this network. doctor mr. president don't kill the golden goose appeal to the fact that much of new york city tax revenue comes from wall street. what about it, jim is the president trying to kill the golden goose and are the press joining him bashing? >> i think president obama is trying to have it both ways. trying to take their money and take it again in 2012. >> 15 million dollars during the campaign. >> appoint many, many people just from goldman sachs to the treasury depth where the fox

guards the hen house. at the same time trying to get credit for being a populous. it is quite a trick and headlines prove that -- >> the left has been tacking wall street, i guess i should -- has been attacking wall street, i guess i should say the press is attacking wall street. >> wait, repeat yourself. >> the press has been attacking wall street as long as republicans have been attacking big government maybe longer. is it popular to pile on at a time like this? >> of course, it is dog bites man. it is not new. and it wouldn't had been possible had this great golden goose not laid a huge leaden egg. what is the president is doing given his poll numbers which continue to sink even after health care is going striking an anti-wall street, anti-washington, anti-elite tone and going to his base. politics 101. he had the votes for the

financial reform package before air force one touched down in new york. >> kirsten i want your reaction to something that charles krauthammer vote. -- wrote. he says, -- >> no, i don't -- charles and i don't usually -- >> that's why i give you the question. >> as much as i respect him and i did i think that's typically what you have to do when you are the president you have to take a hard-line on your positions. you have to go out and fight for something. tried listen to the other side. he's got to make his argument. i do think that obama is trying to have it both waysthon financial reform stuff. he's been very much in bed wall street. if you look at the type of look at how much money he has

gotten from wall street. i think he has realized politically people are angry at him. people feel like everything has been done to benefit wall street. >> is the press paying attention? >> i don't think they are. he is way late on this very, very late on dealing with this issue. >> news started out the week cal, about the sec investigation of goldman sachs. a lot of speculation about the timing. beating up on wall street in the same giant wall street firm at the sometime the president is getting ready to crackdown on wall street. rahm emanuel went on the charlie rose show and said that. listen to this and then your reaction. >> how is it "the new york times" knew about in before goldman sachs did, the filing of the complaint? >> i have no idea. >> soon thereafter, literally within an hour or so the white house was in terms of information -- >> everybody at the white house found out like

everybody else, when it hit the news. >> when it hit "the new york times." ? >> no when it hit the news. sec is an independent agency, operates independently, nobody at the white house knew anything ahead of anybody else. >> there you go. >> if you google goldman sachs and sec it takes you to barack obama web page where you are invited to sign up presumably for petitions on this anybody who believes rahm emanuel on this >> you think his nose was growing? >> pinocchio on steroids. there's enerive in the media. the president says he believes in this, believes in that wc fields said everybody has to believe in something. i believe i'll have another drink. these guys in bed not only democrats the republicans are too. goldman sachs has had its tentacles in government in washington for years. do the banks need to be reformed? absolutely. do they need this bill?

the media thinks so. >> some of the sec lawyers who are supposed to be watching the hen house were surfing porn. >> that gives you a lot of confidence. >> 17 sec employees making a minimum of $100,000 spent, 16,000 hours surfing porn. there's so many threats that the press needs to be taking on. why did blankfein go to the white house five times? now we learn that the ratings like mood december and standard & poor's were soliciting projects they were rating for money and -- i think all four of us a agree both parties have been in the tank on this issue pew for a long time. only now -- issue for a long time.

>> all three heads are nodding in unison with jim. time for a break. first, more stories on media bias and insiders view on what guess on during the breaks. if you want some of that log on to foxnews.com/foxnewswatch after the show. earth day, environment and the media. please pass the doom and gloom. >> earth day hit 40 this week. four decades of environmental awareness and four decades of mainstream media cheerleading. why do journalists trash objectivity when it comes to mother nature? america remembers a tragedy in the past. some in the press link political activism to the sins of mcveigh. all next on news watch. et's kick our excuses to the curb. cover 'em up with an extra bag of lch. let's get our handsa lit. our dollars a little stroer.

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earth day turned 40 this week. originally inspired by former u.s. senator gaylord nelson.

the day brings attention to environmental issues worldwide. i'm old enough to remember the first one. judy, it does help keep environmental issues on peoples' minds without pointing fingers, earth day does. what about the press? the media coverage of it? >> i think the press is accustomed to covering this annual event as people are accustomed to exploiting it. what has happened is earth day has for both media and i think for mainstream world, have become a kind of victim of its own successor it's now a big business. so you have as leslie kaufman wrote an extraordinarily good article in the business section, earth day is big business, including the umbrella that enables you to drain and reuse water. >> i remember growing up in denver as a kid we had

terrible pollution problems in the 70s that has gotten better now. >> it has gotten better and the environmentalists should celebrate that of course they are too busy dooming and glooming about global warming. every movement starts out i'd deal list tick then becomes a corporation and a racket. -- >> epa brought in by nixon. most of the media approach this secular religion, worship the earth. we did well in my father's generation with conservation. . you had the isaac walter league. even the media say don't throw those things on the ground keep the water supply clean. all of that worked out fine. now we have environmentalism which is a kind of secular religion. you have to love your mother the earth and worship trees. we had scares on appear peps

to the crazy global warming cult of al gore! >> come on! >> hug your tree. >> now environmentalists people who believe in global warming, like myself are called doom and gloom people. guess what they used to be called when they were talking about lead paint and water being polluted, doom and gloom people. crazy tree huggers. it is because of them kids don't have to get lead poisoning from their pain. it is the same -- from their paint. is it is the same group of people. >> co2 creates life. >> what i'm saying is your kind back then were attacking my kind who were pushing these environmental protections. i think what judy said is on point. maybe you said they are a victim of their success

whoever said that it is easier when rivers are catching on fire to say we have an environmental problem. more complicated to explain global warming. >> media research center posted a special report this week claiming networks hide the decline in credibility of claims of climate change. and 48% of americans, according to a march 2010 gallup poll, think the threat of global warming is greatly exaggerated. >> it probably is by some people. i know some very smart environmentalists who think al gore has made a point where losing credibility because he exaggerates so much. but it is still a very serious threat. just because it is exaggerated doesn't mean it isn't a threat. >> fortunately they have the white house press corp, the correspondence center would be carbon neutral. hats off to them for catching -- >> hats off to rupert murdoch

who makes this company green. we have posters telling us to be green. come on this is not just a liberal left wing conspiracy. >> it has become -- >> way too much agreement. it is time for another break. if you see evidence of media bias, send the example to us at news watch at foxnews.com. >> next, anniversary of the oklahoma city bombing prompts some in the press to make comparisons that seem anything but fair and balanced. >> 15 years ago an act of terror rocked our nation. now some in the media trying to link that crime to a popular political view? iran's nuclear threat grows. memo from defense secretary reveals a weak plan on how to deal with that threat. is the media paying attention? answers next on news watch.

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when i went back and started preparing for the 15th anniversary of oklahoma city, i realized there were a lot of parallels between the early 90s and now. the rise of identity politics. the rise of the militia movements and right wing talk radio was a lot of what is going on now. >> former president bill clinton and this week saying he sees a lot of similarities between the nation's mood at the time of the oklahoma city bombing and current anti-government attitudes. msnbc aired a special on oklahoma bomber timothy mcveigh. the host went on jon stewart's program. listen. >> the dark side is that he really did see himself as part

of an anti-government movement in the united states. we have that to a greater or lesser degree over time in the u.s.. right now i think we are experience ago up swing in anti-government extremism. not to say the next mcveigh is out there but it is to say people should not be encouraging violence against government institutions and people. >> as i recall, mcveigh blew up the murrah federal building because he was angry over janet reno, bill clinton's attorney general sending in the federale's to the waco compound. >> clinton helped himself to get he reelected by blaming oklahoma city on rush limbaugh and trying to do it again to help the democrats in 2010. transparent tactic. nice to see abc news and jake tapper will be there with him every step of the way.

>> the tea party movement is what she seems to be talking about, tantamount to blowing up the federal building? >> i think that's the subtext of what she was saying. i don't have any specific quarrel with what she was saying or what former president clinton was saying. because i think we have to be careful about the language we are all using and hearing. we see these threats against congressmen from the left and especially the right. and we have to be careful. remember, a lot of this can end in violence. >> this is interesting to hear in the 80s when conservatives argued there was a connection between sex and violence in the media and acts of sex and violence, rape, beating up people, the left said, oh no, there's no connection at all. ted bundy the serial killer interviewed said pornography was the cause of his decision to violently abuse and kill women. but the left said, oh no he's

wrong faking it. >> there's an entire movement called feminism actually at that time was -- took up all of those causes and still does, not as big as they used to be -- [ talking over each other ] >> the left was very much on that side. >> left had the aclu which said anything goes. >> aclu is a totally separate mission that is not the same thing. you are lumping everybody together. >> left includes more than feminists. >> yes it does. but you cannot leave out an entire group of people in the forefront of fighting these issues. >> speaking of fighting, let's talk about iran. that country's ref larry guard began war games in the gulf thursday as concerns grow over iran's nuclear threat. reports predict iran could develop a ballistic missile capable of reaching the u.s.

as early as 2015. the "new york times" sunday ran an article detailing a classified memo that defense secretary gates sent to the white house in that memo gates raises concerns about iran's nuclear program and whether the u.s. has policies in place to deal with it. secretary gates supposedly did not like seeing his classified memo leaked to a major paper. there's been speculation that he himself might have leaked it. he pushed back calling the paper out for serious mischaracterizations about the memo's content and purpose. he wrote, the memo was not intended as a wake-up call or received by the president's national security team. it presented a number of questions and proposals intended to contribute to an orderly and timely decision-making process. there should be no confusion that the united states is properly and focused on this question and prepared to act across a broad range of contingencies in support of our interests. is this diplomacy in the media,

judy? >> this is vintage secretary gates. an insider. he knows how to play this game. he was former head of cia. this memo was leaked. what is extraordinary about it, as senator mccain said, i don't need three-page classified member know tell me we don't have a well conceived iran policy. >> fit was leaked by someone close to him, what does he get out of it? >> distance from a failed policy it reminds me what rumsfeld did in 2003. he said oh gosh, are we making things worse in iraq? that ended up in the paper too. >> up next, newsroom drama at nbc. why all the anchor angst at club peacock? >> he's suspended. he's suspended. and nobody really likes him.

are peacock news anchors out of control? that's next on news watch. ♪

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>> jon: we could start a regular segment in what they are thinking over at msnbc. david schuster was suspended indefinitely for straying away and taking a pilot program for rival cnn. he has been in trouble before for inappropriate tweets and pimping out comment about chelsea clinton. now extra donny doich. he included a shot of keith oberman and said america the angry. he got the boot because he dared make a reference to the channel's number one anchor. stay tuned for more. that is going to be a wrap on news watch this week.